Abandoned in the Wasteland

by Minow, Newton N.; Lamay, Craig L.

• ISBN13: 9780809015894
• ISBN10: 0809015897
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-01
• Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub

Summary

Broadcasters, parents, public officials, and teachers have all abandoned our children to a wasteland of vacuous, often violent television programing. In this eloquent book, Newton Minow and Craig LaMay persuasively demonstrate that this is a false application of the First Amendment. Broadcasters are required by law to serve the public interest, and the Supreme Court and Congress have said that service to children is a broadcaster's obligation under law, they remind us; the First Amendment can be used on behalf of children, to help make television a force that will nurture and not harm them.

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(14)
Newton N. Minow
1. Strangers in the House	17	(41)
2. Whence the Stranger? The Elusive Public Interest	58	(47)
3. Children, Television, and the First Amendment	105	(32)
4. The Next Generation and the Age of SuperTube	137	(15)
5. Changing the Way We Think	152	(25)
Appendix 1: A Bill for Children's Telecommunication	177	(8)
Appendix 2: The Wasteland Speeches, 1961 and 1991	185	(24)
Newton N. Minow
Notes	209	(16)
Index	225